Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

As Bible sales surge, there is a new book about the Good Book for young readers. “Know the story of the Bible. We can’t know the parts if we don’t know the whole,” encourages Emily Stimpson Chapman, ...